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The 1911 Revolution

The 1911 Revolution

梅毅

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China National Publications Import & Export C
Año de edición:
2018
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Historia
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9787545531732
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'Heroic Ambition: Constructing a Panoramic Genealogy of Chinese Heroes豪情构建全景式构建中华英雄谱系The year 1911, as the Qing Dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse, revealed an empire shrouded in magnificence yet riddled with fatal maladies and decay beneath its façade. Beneath a surface of apparent calm surged a powerful, irreversible tide: revolution!Reformers like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao loudly proclaimed, 'Complete transformation brings strength; partial change leads only to ruin!', fervently advocating for change. The powerless Emperor Guangxu and his scholarly reformist ministers struggled bare-handed against the aging but cunning Empress Dowager Cixi and her allies. With the crisp crack of gunfire in the 1911 Revolution, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty, which had flown for over 260 years, fell... Countless tenacious revolutionaries-soldiers and intellectuals alike-sacrificed their lives, shedding blood and offering their bodies and souls to their cause and their country.Tang Caichang, leader of the 'Self-Support Army', was among the first to fall. Figures like Shi Jianru, Wu Yue, and Xu Xilin poured out their crimson blood in sacrifice. Zhao Erfeng, a lifelong military man and national hero, transformed into the 'Butcher of Chengdu'. Yuan Shikai, nurturing threats to serve his own ends, 'usurped' the fruits of victory... The 1911 Revolution was both a grand epic of individual heroism and a powerful symphony of nationalism.Those bloody years of revolution ended prematurely. Nearly a century has passed like fleeting smoke, yet the bitterness longed for by the fervent revolutionaries in the wake of the 1911 gunfire continues to linger in our hearts.1911年,清朝即将灭亡的那一年,华丽帝国的遮羞布下,满是能致它死地的痼疾和菌群。看似平静的表层下面,涌动着一股强大的、不可逆转的潮流:革命!康有为、梁启超等维新派人士高喊'全变则强,小变仍亡!',强烈呼吁改革。手无寸权的光绪帝,书生气的维新臣,赤手空拳地与老迈而阴奸的慈禧及其羽翼争斗。辛亥革命的枪声脆然一响,二百六十多年的大清龙旗,应声而落......无数坚忍不拔的革命士兵、知识分子,抛头颅,洒热血,以身殉志,以命酬国。'自立军'首领唐才常率先倒下;史坚如、吴樾、徐锡麟赤血横流;一生戎马倥偬的民族英雄赵尔丰,摇身一变成为成都'赵屠户';袁世凯养敌自重,'篡夺'胜利果实......辛亥革命,是一首个人英雄主义的伟大史诗,也是一首民族主义的雄浑交响曲!铁血华年,革命早夭。近百年的岁月已恍如云烟,革命的激进者翘首企盼的苦涩,在辛亥革命枪响后,长久萦绕于我们的心头。

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